feather.el
Parallel thread modern Emacs package manager (by conao3)
twist.nix
Build an entire Emacs configuration as a Nix package in a pure, reproducible way (by emacs-twist)
| feather.el | twist.nix | |
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| 2 | 4 | |
| 93 | 52 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 7.9 | |
| 3 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | Nix | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
feather.el
Posts with mentions or reviews of feather.el.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-10.
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straight.el as a classic example of overengineering in emacs?
I also noticed that this is what feather.el does to package.el. So elpaca looks like a straight.el equivalent to package.el + feather.el. It must be a hard work!
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Parallel Package Installation
Perhaps https://github.com/conao3/feather.el would be of use
twist.nix
Posts with mentions or reviews of twist.nix.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.
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Mega fast startup times
It's only for Nix users, but my twist.nix package manager is capable of native-compiling all packages. You can even push native-compiled assets to a remote binary cache. I precompile packages on CI and use them on a slow Celeron computer by just fetching them from a server.
- twist.nix: A Nix library for building a set of locally-freezed elisp packages
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[ANN] Elisp Repo Kit
I question use of emacs-overlay for Emacs Lisp testing. It should work, but there can be situations where the user may suffer from an upstream issue, and it would be difficult to identify such bug with emacs-overlay. That's one of the reasons I ended up writing its alternative from scratch.
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straight.el as a classic example of overengineering in emacs?
Interesting. I have written my own package manager too (in Nix), and I chose not to depend on straight.el, unlike nix-straight. The reason is because I do nott want to depend on the complex piece of software which is not owned by myself.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing feather.el and twist.nix you can also consider the following projects:
emacs-config - My configuration for Doom Emacs. Mirror of https://git.tecosaur.net/tec/emacs-config.
elisp-repo-kit - Emacs Lisp package for creating an Emacs Lisp Github repo with CI
nix-straight.el - Low-level Nix integration to straight.el [maintainer=@ckiee]
.emacs.d - https://emacs.takeokunn.org/